We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!